The State-Mafia Pact - La trattativa

Sabina Guzzanti

Film runs Sunday, June 7, 2015 - Wednesday, June 10, 2015

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Sabina Guzzanti

2014

Italy

Italian with English subtitles

DCP

108 minutes

North American Premiere

Disgraced former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is only the tip of the sleazy iceberg in this bombshell hybrid documentary, a detailed account of widespread government-mafia corruption. Both formally and factually engaging, this film by Sabina Guzzanti (Viva Zapatero!, Sympathy for the Lobster) was inspired by Elio Petri’s Three Hypotheses on the Death of Giuseppe Pinelli. Talking-head interview subjects give evidence about the collaboration between officials and the Cosa Nostra during the early 1990s, and then reenact certain events with the help of a green screen. Guzzanti herself plays Berlusconi, hilariously nailing his bluster.